Tiny Groll Street, which runs just three blocks, from Jeanne-Mance to Saint-Urbain, is an anomaly in the neighbourhood streetscape. To such a point that writer Myriam Beaudoin, in her novel Hadassa, calls it the “secret treasure of Mile End”. But why does such a street exist? And where does the […]

Lux was an all-night commercial complex – a bar, restaurant, bookstore and tobacco shop all in one. When it opened in the summer of 1984, it quickly became one of the favourite hang-outs of cool Montreal night life. Its owner, Dr. Jean-Marie Labrousse, one of the co-owners of famed restaurant […]